Water, hygiene and sanitation: does business have a role to play?
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Social
No-one needs to explain to the rural residents of Zambia's Western Province the value ofwater. They know all too well. Two in three people lack safe water to drink in the region's villages, and even fewer have access to a clean toilet.
So whenVillage Water Zambiaarrived offering to provide wells, hand pumps and sanitation facilities, the charity was warmly received. Likewise, when US bankBank of America Merrill Lynchstepped in and gifted the charity's UK arm more than £100,000 over two years, hands clappedonce again. Ten additional villages now have safe water, and 1,600 Zambians are now less likely to suffer diarrhoea and other nasty water-born illnesses. What's not to like? Yet corporate philanthropy, especially of the chequebook kind, has become something of a dirty word insustainabilitycircles of late. Everything has to have a long-term, strategic objective and an underlying business case, the experts say. Just look at all the wells built by well-meaningcompanies that now lie broken across Africa.
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